The prevalence of congenital heart disease (CHD) among in vitro fertilization (IVF) pregnancies is similar to that of the general population, but there is an increased risk of CHD among twins resulting from IVF, according to research by Yale School of...
Steven Koonin, head scientist for the global energy company BP, will speak at Yale University on February 18 and 19 as the Benjamin and Barbara Zucker Environmental Fellow for Spring 2008.Koonin will be guest speaker at a Master’s Tea on February 18 at 4...
Poet Eavan Boland will be at Yale on February 7 for a Master’s Tea at Jonathan Edwards College, 100 Tower Parkway, at 4 p.m. and to read from her work in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, at 7 p.m.Sponsored by the Yale Department of...
A panel discussion on the role of the U.S. military in preserving the cultural heritage of Iraq will be held at Yale University on February 12 at 7 p.m. in Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High St.This is the fourth event in a series titled “Iraq...
Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery is becoming increasingly common, and appears to be a viable treatment, among individuals in their 90s, according to a study published in the American Journal of Cardiology.CABG surgery creates new pathways...
Yale University Nursing School Dean Margaret Grey’s research into coping skills training for diabetic children has been cited as one of the 10 most significant studies in the 22-year history of the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR).Grey’s...
A protein has been found that influences the response of the heart to a lack of oxygen and blood flow, such as occurs during a heart attack, a team of Yale School of Medicine researchers report today in Nature.This finding may present a new therapeutic...
Midwestern farming has introduced the equivalent of five Connecticut Rivers into the Mississippi River over the past 50 years and is adding more carbon dioxide annually into its waters, according to a study published in Nature by researchers at Yale and...
Seventh-graders in the Worthington Hooker School, 804 State Street, will learn the basics of tango when an ensemble from Yale School of Music puts on a show of the Argentinean art form on January 30, 1:30–2:30 p.m.Members of the news media are invited to...
Azar Nafisi, award-winning author of the acclaimed memoir “Reading Lolita in Tehran,” will deliver this year’s Finzi-Contini Lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, on February 7 at 4:30 p.m. Her talk, “The Republic of the Imagination,”...